Fantasy adventuring never had it this good.Prepare to adventure through some enormous and beautiful environments.

User Rating: 8.6 | Severance: Blade of Darkness PC
Very little was heard about this game until a few months before release, the screenshots showing a game with excellent graphics and a very standard third person view kind of look, but nothing really else gripped you. It was just enough to gain my attention though and when the demo came out I quickly installed it.
It didn’t run particularly well on my system at the time and was frustratingly difficult at times. Other people looked at the demo, and were immediately put off. But somehow I managed to see through the bad points of the demo and enjoy it, and after reading a review in a magazine went out and purchased the game regardless. This title certainly was a shocker as the game itself was far better than the demo ever was or tried to show! And it really outshone itself in so many aspects. For here was the game that was set to breathe some much needed life into the fantasy third person adventure genre.
When you say third person adventure everyone immediately thinks Tomb Raider. Now that might not be a bad thing if you like the series, but for people like myself who don’t then why is Severance going to make you change your mind on this genre? Especially as it features no guns and features only hand to hand combat, something that has been attempted so many times before and failed so miserably? Well after playing the game you quickly see why I highly rate this game, and eagerly await a sequel, or a tide of new games using the same formula as Severance.